[ngomez]

That story sounds similar to Bezos' mandate in Steve Yegge's Google platform rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

[duxup]

That sounds very similar.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were MANY versions of the same story as a lot of people would have been impacted by the change in approach to everything, but they would have seen the implementation and results in different ways.